First Starting Up

[brlund]

::Before you read, yes i am a newb::

I start up knoppix I login then I try typing

startkde- then it just goes crazy saying cant connect to x server
xserver- warning priority set to -11 instead of requested priority 10
Fatal Server Error:
cannot creat lock file in /tmp/.txo-lock
root@none:/#(is this the problem?)

Thanks in advance

[rickenbacherus]

::Before you read, yes i am a newb::

I start up knoppix I login then I try typing

startkde- then it just goes crazy saying cant connect to x server
xserver- warning priority set to -11 instead of requested priority 10
Fatal Server Error:
cannot creat lock file in /tmp/.txo-lock
root@none:/#(is this the problem?)

Thanks in advance

You log in. From text mode I presume? Are you booting with any of the cheat codes available? What kind of video card?

You can also try startx.

[brlund]

sorry for my lack of details:

I have onboard video on my gateway baby-at motherboard
yes i log in as root
when i try startx it keeps repeating (somethingidontremember): cannot start x server

Thanks!

[rickenbacherus]

I have onboard video on my gateway baby-at motherboard

I have never so much as rebooted a Gateway before so that really doesn't tell me much. My video card is an ATI Radeon 7200 w/ 128M AGP. What's your chipset? There are cheat codes in the Docs section to specify the type of driver needed for Xwindows to work on your particular video chipset.

yes i log in as root
when i try startx it keeps repeating (somethingidontremember): cannot start x server

The part you can't remember is what we need. There will actually be some useful error messages there. Write it down if nothing else.